La Jolla Group

Okay, so like i said last week, me and melissa got jobs. since melissa isn't writing this, i am going to tell you about what my job has been like.

it's been awesome. i work as a "...LOST Sales support Rep" and i really enjoy it. i go to work everyday in irvine (20 minutes from home) in shorts, t-shirt, and sandals. my trainer has hair down to his shoulders and walks the halls barefoot and curses like a sailor. so yes... i love the atmosphere.

i am responsible for Sales support for Lost in every part of the world except WA and CA. we have so much more volume in california that there are three people splitting california, one in WA and i have the rest of the frickin world. i also found out on friday, that the retard who had my job before i came was fired. he was that bad at his job. man. so yeah. this entire week, my trainers have been asking questions to my boss on how to fix my issues because there were so many stinking problems with my area. it is now all taken care of, but seriously, all i did this week was take care of problems.

i spend a little bit of time trying to arrange wire transfers from puerto rico. stuff like that. crazy. so life is good. i get a great GREAT deal on clothes from o'neill (awesome), lost (awesome), metal mulisha (who cares?) and soon since we just bought the company rusty (awesome).

I'm really thinking that i could stay in action sports business for the rest of my life. i'm pretty stoked to be completely honest.

We got JOBS!

No we did not knock off the famous Steve. We finally have joined the rest of civilized society and are making money. Missy is working for a family as a nanny in Monarch Beach. I am a sales support rep at Oneill, Rusty, Metal Mulisha, and ...lost. so yeah. not much else to report. oh wait there is!

SOUTH DAKOTA IS FLAT!

Missy's brother got married on September 1st. and since we are family and he came to our wedding we went to his. it was in SOUTH DAKOTA! so we went to the wedding and met the entire population of south dakota. okay not really... but close since the whole wedding was about 150 people. which is what i hear the population of sd is anyways. okay so we go to an airport that is the biggest airport in south dakota. souix falls. we land and the biggest building you can see for MILES around is not even three stories tall. and this is the biggest building in the biggest city of south dakota. seriously.... amazing.

like how this map shows its all deserted... the little red dot on the bottom right is souix falls. the wedding was the red dot on the top right.

but hey the wedding was fun. watching 150 people get drunk and remind you every 10 minutes that the only thing to do in SD is drink, was kinda fun. i had never heard this rendition of "the chicken dance" but when it came to the end of the chorus part, (when you clap your hands four times) the whole group would scream the phrase... "WE WANT MORE BEER!"

so yes.. tons of fun!

Filephile

So. seeing as i (tyler) am looking for a job, i don't have a ton to do during the day. i post resumes online on company websites. so i started organizing all the video and pictures files from Lake Powell.

So i ask you this. why is it, my favorite video clips are of anyone totally wiping out. i was organizing all the files when melissa walked in with her two brothers and the only videos i ended up showing them was the really bad crashes. we all laughed and stuff. but seriously. (okay, not too serious) why am i fascinated by ABSOLUTE failure in extreme sports. could it be men were not meant to be succesful at extreme sports. seems like most extreme sports were born from two guys that were thinking, how can i make this easier sport... harder but COOLER.

i think thats where jackass the movie comes in. it just skips the creative sport inventing and goes straight for the crashes. i think the only thing that is better than a really good crash is something that really under normal laws of physics should have been a really bad crash, but the "athlete" somehow pulls something out his rear and lands it.

like when tony hawke landed the first 1080. or the first motocross backflip. or danny way clearing the great wall of china. it should not have been done, but somehow they did it.

so without further adue (how does one spell that?) i give you my two favorite crashes. number 2 (the first one you see as you scroll down) is my brother in law joe. he got in the boat after this doosy.


and number 1 goes to marshall kinison with this face reaaranger(man i suck at spelling)

Photos!

K so we thought we would put a few photos up that are kinda fun so you don't have to go searching through the hundreds of photos to find interesting photos. These are just the token photos that most people look for. i wanted to post more.. but picasa only allows me to post 4 which is gay to say the least.